Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > There's been so much traffic on this thread, that I suspect most > people have missed the fact that Ian Lance Taylor has analyzed and > *solved* the problems with interaction between libtool and > libc5-compat shared libraries.
I don't think this adresses the core problem. Yes, it fixes the libc5/6 problem, but consider this situation: * Program xfoo is linked with libXaw.so * -rpath is used so it's hard coded to look for this library in /usr/X11R6/lib/ * The user of program xfoo wants to use the xaw3d widget set with it instead of the default libXaw.so. They expect to be able to set LD_PRELOAD to point to /usr/X11R6/lib/xaw95/ and for the linker to pick up and use the libXaw.so in that directory, which is the xaw95 version of the library. * Since -rpath was used, this will not work. -- see shy jo